The Lands Department issued six consents for the sale of units in uncompleted developments from October to December.

Four consents were for residential units and two consents for commercial units. All of them were issued within the department's performance target time limit.

The four consents involved the sale of 1,989 units in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon districts. Three of these developments comprising 1,945 units are to be completed this year and the remaining one in February 2005.

The department issued one consent for the sale of 64 residential units in an uncompleted development project last month. The development is located on Hong Kong Island and is estimated to be completed by September.

One consent to assign 442 residential units on Hong Kong Island was also issued.

As at December, a total of 14 applications for pre-sale consent involving 8,672 residential units located in various parts of Hong Kong were pending approval. Nine of them will be completed this year and the remaining five before October 2005. There are five applications for pre-sale consent involving commercial units pending approval.